u/AnyAgent8049

2 full seasons at Porto. 2 league titles, UEFA Cup first season, UCL second season. Plus a few domestic cups. UCL with PORTO.

Goes to Chelsea and wins their first title in 40-50 years, smashing the points record in his first season and gets to the UCL semis (furthest they’ve been for ages / ever) and goes out to a dodgy goal. Then retains the title in the second season. Finishes 2nd and wins League Cup in third season.

2 seasons at Inter. Wins the league in his first season (although admittedly they had won the previous few) and in his second season wins the treble, the only Italian team to ever do it. And Inter’s first UCL for 40 years. Beating prime Barca over two legs in the process.

Goes to Madrid and is competing against the greatest team in history. Copa Del Rey in the first season then wins La Liga in his second, breaking the points record. Was probably a penalty shootout in the semis away from winning his third UCL in a decade.

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Some might not think spicy enough, some might think stupid. Fair dos.

Louth Town fan coming in peace.

Take an interest in Fulham cos I leave near Craven Cottage but can’t claim to know as much as any of you guys.

Who’s gonna be getting game time in the fun half of the pitch?

-Few new exciting signings from Madrid (dunno where they play though)
-That lad from Bayern
-Kevin looks lively when I watch him
-So does Josh King
-Feel like Muniz was banging them in a few years back

Exciting times with Arbeloa at the helm surely

I’m doing eras rather than single seasons:

Invincibles 03-05: 1 league (90 points), 1 FA Cup

I’m going to try and not get into “Arsenal should’ve lost to Portsmouth” and “Chelsea should’ve got to the UCL final” but for poor refereeing cos that opens up serious cans of worms.

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I have the following teams down as superior:

United 98-01: 3 leagues, 1 UCL, 1 FA Cup (inc. Treble)

United 06-09: 3 leagues, 1 UCL, 1 League Cup

City 17-19: 2 league titles (100 & 98 points), 2 League Cups, 1 FA Cup

City 22-24: 2 league titles, 1 UCL, 1 FA Cup (inc. Treble)

Liverpool 18-20: 1 league title (99 points, would’ve been >100 without Covid, earliest ever crowning, 2 points dropped in first 27 games or something nuts like that), 1 UCL. Also got 97 points as runners up.

Chelsea 04-07: 2 league titles (a then record 95 & 91 points), 2 league cups, 1 FA Cup.

MAYBE Chelsea 16-18: 1 league title (93 points, and the nuance here is they only got 7 points from their opening 6 games — Conte switched to 3-4-3 and they were unreal after that), 1 FA Cup.

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I really like the Arsenal Invincibles team and think their players were good enough to win a UCL and more trophies around the time.

And it’s a nice record. But trophies matter the most in football. And then after trophies it’s points, because points are what determines the league table. 90 points only wins you the league in something like 25 of the 34 PL seasons.

Maybe on a personal level I’d rather have a 90-point, 1-trophy unbeaten season than a 93-point, 1-trophy season that includes a loss. But that doesn’t make the the former a better team than the latter. And besides I’d much rather have multiple trophies.

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This is probs only a 3-4/10 spicy but it’s my first time, cut me some slack.

Big love Arsenal fans, I was glad you won the league. And I live in East London nowadays and was enjoying walking through your parade.

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EDIT: Some people are misinterpreting the years so I’ll clarify. 03-05 = 2003/2004 and 2004/2005.

Apologies if that wasn’t clear, I presumed it would be.

With regards to why some eras are longer than others, I’ve tried to pick eras where the starting XI is mostly the same throughout. People have rightly pointed out that Arsenal won the league in 2001/2002, but if I remember rightly that team had Wiltord, Adams, Seaman etc.

Furthermore, I actually excluded a few title wins for City from 2020-2022 because those teams didn’t include Haaland, Grealish, Alvarez etc.

Hope that clears it up, apologies for the confusion.

Don’t have a season ticket anymore (moved away) but watch our highlights and games when they’re on TV.

Can an ST holder explain to me why Beadle starts? Allsopp was great last year and other than one mistake that I can remember he’s been great this year on the rare occasions I’ve seen him.

Beadle seems to regularly make mistakes and Allsopp is great with his feet so it’s not even like you’re sacrificing skill with hands for skill with feet as Allsopp has both?

Cheers